Display container



Dec. 24, 1968 M. LEVY 3,417,861

DISPLAY CONTAINER Filed July 6. 1967 INVENTOR United States Patent3,417,861 DISPLAY CONTAINER Milton Levy, Woodmere, N .Y. (43-47 W. 23rdSt., New York, N.Y. 10010) Filed July 6, 1967, Ser. No. 651,605 4Claims. (Cl. 20645.28)

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A hollow cylindrical container having readilymountable bottom closure and a slidable and swingable top closure, withmeans for holding the cover in swung upright position, the cover beingadapted to bear advertising matter on either or both surfaces thereof.The bottom closure end cover have means in common for mounting the same.

An object of the invention is to provide a container with novel means incommon for mounting or positioning the bottom closure and the topclousure.

The invention comprises a hollow cylindrical container formed ofsuitable plastic material with a hinged cover and means in common formounting or positioning the cover and bottom of the container.

Another object is to provide a hinged cover that is adapted to serve asboth a cover and an advertising medium as desired.

Another object is to provide a readily manipulable display coverarranged to swing upwardly when displaying the goods or to swing overthe top of the container when the goods are not exhibited.

A specific object of the invention is to provide a slidable cover for acontainer with a tongue for securely holding the cover in a verticalposition.

Brief description of the views of the drawings FIGURE 1 is a topperspective view of a container embodying the invention, the cover beingshown in closed position in full lines and in open position in dashlines.

FIG. 2 is a similar view with the cover in open position in full lines.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken on the plane of theline 33 of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a disassembled elevational view of the bottom closure andcover and connection therebetween.

Detailed description of the drawing Referring now in detail to thevarious views of the drawings, in FIG. 1 a container embodying theinvention is shown. The container 10 comprises a hollow cylindrical body12 of transparent plastic material, but may be made of cardboard or anyother suitable material. The body may be formed from a rectangular blankof plastic material looped With its end edges overlapping and secured toeach other by adhesive. The top edge of the body 12 is formed with aclosed bead 16 and the bottom edge with an open bead 18.

In accordance with the present invention, the open bottom end of thebody is closed by a cardboard disc 20 seated on the top edge of the openbead 18. An elongated rectangular shaped tongue 22 is formed on theperiphery of the disc 20.

The juncture between the tongue and body of the disc is formed with ascore line 24 forming a continuation of the periphery of the disc. Thetongue at its free end is formed with a central hole 26. The tongue isbent along the score line at right angles to the plane of the disc 20along the score line 24 so that the disc seats on the bead 18 and thetongue extends upwardly to a point adjacent the top bead 16 closelyspaced from the inner surface of the body of the container.

. body 12 of the container.

A cover or top closure is provided for the top opening in the body ofthe container in the form of a substantial circular cardboard disc 34having an outwardly extending tapering tongue 36 extending from the flatportion of the periphery of the disc thereby providing shoulders 38 and38. An elongated closed slot 40 is formed in the tongue 36longitudinally thereof. A fold line 42 is formed across the tongue 36adjacent its inner end, the fold line intersecting the slot 40,outwardly of the shoulders 38. The tongue 36 slidably fits in theclearance 32 between the 22 and body 12 of the container and is heldtherein against removal by the rivet 30 extending through aligned holesand the slot 40 in the tongue 36. The tongue 36 and slot 40 herein areso dimensioned that the cover 34 may be manually pulled outwardly orupwardly of the body of the container until the fold line 42 moves abovethe top peripheral bead 16 of the body of the container .as shown indash lines in FIG. 1. When in this position, the cover 34 may be foldedover the top opening in the body of the container to close said openingas shown in FIG. 1.

Contrariwise, when the cover 34 is pushed downwardly the fold line 42 ismoved down to a position between the top of the tongue 22 on bottomclosure disc 20 and the body 12 of the container whereby folding isprevented and the cover 34 is held in upright position by the interlockof the tongues and body as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.

The invention contemplates that the inner surface of the cover whenclosed contains indicia as indicated at 44 constituting advertisingmatter of the contents of the container, so that then when the cover isin open-held position as shown in FIG. 2, the advertising matter 44 willbe visible to the viewer. The other surface of the cover 34 may alsocontain advertising matter. The cover 34 may be formed with a hole 48for hanging on a nail or the like.

I claim:

1. A container having a hollow cylindrical container open at both ends,a disc-shaped member closing the opening in the bottom thereof, anotherdisc-shaped member adapted to close the opening in the top thereof,means of connection between said disc-shaped members for selectivelyholding the top closure disc in upright open position, the connectionbetween the top and bottom disc-shaped members including an integraltongue extending from the periphery of the bottom disc at right anglesto the plane of the body of said bottom disc shaped member extendingalong the body of the container and slightly spaced therefrom, anintegral tongue on the top disc-shaped member extending downwardly intothe space between the bottom disc-shaped member tongue and body of thecontainer, said tongues having aligned openings, the opening in thetongue on the top cover disc-shaped member being elongated, and a doubleheaded rivet extending through said aligned openings whereby the topdisc shaped member is adapted to move in and out relative to the body ofthe container, a portion of the tongue on the top cover disc-shapedmember and a portion of said elongated opening extending over the top ofthe body of the container in closed position of said top coverdisc-shaped member so that the tongue on the top cover disc-shapedmember may be moved inwardly of the top edge of the body between thetongue on the bottom disc-shaped member and the body of the containerfor holding the top cover disc-shaped member against folding and inupright position.

2. A container as defined in claim 1 wherein the body of the containeris formed of plastic and the bottom discshaped member, top disc-shapedmember and means of connection therebetween is formed of cardboard.

3. A container as defined in claim 2 wherein at least 2,019,995 11/1935Rippen 20645.3 one surface of the cover for the top opening contains2,160,620 5/1939 Myers 20645.3 :advertising matter viewable When the topclosure disc- 2,481,302 9/1949 Fogel 20645.34 shaped member is inupright position. 2,924,373 2/ 1960 DiVozzi 22944 4. A container asdefined in claim 1 wherein at least one surface of the cover for the topopening contains ad- 5 FOREIGN PATENTS vertising matter viewable whenthe top closure disc-shaped 6,091 1909 Great Britainbe inu r' ht heldsition. mam I 15 p lg PO MARTHA L. RICE, Primary Examiner.

References Cited US Cl XR 10 UNITED STATES PATENTS 220-38; 229-441,859,903 5/1932 Wellman 206-453 X

